West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-08-05
ABOUT WOMEN.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox denies the report that
she is to leave Meriden, Conn.
Mrs Logan is rapidly recovering from the
shock Of her recent accident.
Airs. ]. c. Aver is in London, spending
literally her income of 100000 year.
Mrs. Lewis, mother Of the heroine of Lime
Rocks lighthouse, died at Newport recently.
Mrs Ralph Waldo Emerson attended the
opening session of the Concord Summer School
Of Philosophy.
Mrs. Rachel Lloyd makes $500 q year
teaching chemistry to students of the Nebras-
Sa State university.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is now on
her third visit to England, which she lett
when IL years Of age.
Mrs. Bright Eyes Tibbals is arranging to
deliver q series Of lectures in London on the
wrongs of the North American Indians.
Miss Margaret OrthauS, whose father came
TO America as private secretary to Maximil-
liam, was recently married at Oshkosh,
Wis.
Miss Annie Cummings, Of San Francisco,
the champion roller skater, Is now I'm the
employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad
company.
Miss Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Sew
ing Machine Singer, bimillionairess, is ell
gagged to gid the title of the Prince dc Scey-
Montbeliard
Edith Clark, Of San Francisco, has received
a silver medal from the secretary of the
treasury for saving Schoclmate from drown
ing last year.
Miss Caroline Kinsey is the superintendent
Of the Tazewel county, Ills, poor farm, at a
salary Of 5000 per year. She succeeded her
father to the position.
Nine. Popp, the doyenne of Belgian jour
naliSts, for fifty years editor Of The Bruges
Journal, has written up TO the present no less
than $1,000 articles, each containing from
5000 to LOCO words.
Mrs. Lathrop is n near relative of Senator
wealthy widow. Her Saratoga home is a
magnificent house, Gothic in style and sur
rounded by handsome lawns.
Miss Alice E. Freeman, runor has it, has
resigned the presidency Of Wellesley college,
but VIII fill the position until q successor has
been appointed. The reason assigned is that
she is about TO marry Harvard professor.
Mrs. Beecher seems unable, since her hus-
bands death, to remain long away from
Brooklyn. Her white and pathetically COM
posed face is seen among the Plymouth
Pensioners every few weeks, though nomi-
nally she is spending the summer at SIAM
ford.
Miss Ovingt0n, of Brooklyn, who is to
marry Capt. Nathan Appleton, of Boston,
has made an envisble reputation as a photo
grapher. She is now at Ems, where she has
attracted the attention Of Emperor William.
The aged monarch has promised to sit for his
picture before Miss Ovington's camera.
The widow of President Barios has rented
cottage at Newport. She is, without being
exactly a beauty, fine looking woman, very
Rifable and pleasant, and owns some of the
finest Mexican fire opals ever SEEN She wears
black thread lace dressed over silk or satin
slips, with natural flowers only as ornaments
roses usually.
Mrs. Yam Phon Lee and her husband, the
Americanized Chinaman, are provoking more
attention than they desire at Narragansett
Pier. Wherever they so they are gazed at
by curious eyes Mrs. Lee is young woman
with dark complexion blue eyes, regular
features and dark brown hair. Mr. and Mrs
Lee were present recently at Casino hop,
but did not indulge in dancing.